The agon was of a classic type: two brothers engaged in battle for a throne after their father’s passing, one of whom was a victim of ambuscade, waylaid, with an arrow piercing his arm just below his pauldron, and although he grasped and broke off the shaft and thought that all would be well once the head was removed, he realized – too late – that the tip must have been poisoned, as he slipped into a hazy netherworld of beatitude.

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